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Another Gay Teacher Fired For Getting Married. So Much For The Kinder,...

Apparently, word hasn’t quite filtered down from The Advocate’s Man of the Year that firing teachers for wanting to get married isn’t exactly nonjudgmental. In the latest episode, Brian Panetta, the...

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One Of Pope Francis’s New Cardinals Thinks Homosexuality Is A “Defect” That...

Just in case you genuinely believed that Pope Francis was going to turn the Catholic Church around overnight (if at all), consider the comments of one of his newly appointed cardinals. When the pope...

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UN Report Blasts Vatican For Homophobic Policies And Pedophile Priest Cover-Up

In a test for Pope Francis‘s image of a kinder, gentler Vatican, a United Nations human rights commission has issued a scathing report, taking the Church to task for failing to this day to protect...

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It Looks Like Pope Francis Actually Wants To Move The Vatican On Gay...

Pope Francis has certainly made a lot of the right noises when it comes to LGBT issues, most famously his “Who am I to judge?” pronouncement. But the words have fallen far short of actual policy...

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Five Truly Radical Things Pope Francis Could Do To Improve The Catholic Church

Today marks the one-year anniversary of Pope Francis as head of the Catholic Church, and at least in terms of the volume of extrapolation that has accompanied his few pronouncements, it’s been a great...

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Is It Good News Or Bad News That The Vatican Is Convening A Special Meeting...

Pope Francis clearly wants to put his mark on the Catholic Church, but what exactly what is that mark? We may get a better sense this fall. The pontiff has just ordered an “extraordinary” session of...

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Pope Francis Is Willing To Baptize Martians But He Still Won’t Marry You

You don’t have to be human to be baptized Catholic. That’s the latest from Pope Francis. In a homily to the faithful, the “who am I to judge” pontiff said that the Catholic Church is open to everyone,...

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New Catholic Documentary Tells Gays To Give Up Sex For God

Catholic teaching holds that lesbians and gay men won’t go to hell if they refrain from sex. Now a new documentary is making the rounds to promote just that point. Entitled “The Third Way:...

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A New Vatican Document Suggests The Church Really Is Softening It’s Tone On...

The big question hanging over Pope Francis has been whether he would deliver on his rhetoric when it comes to LGBT issues. After all, it’s one thing to say “who am I to judge” and another to actually...

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Everything That’s Wrong With The Catholic Church In Two Stories

Sometimes two news stories collide in such a way as to tell you everything you wanted to know about an issue. That’s the case with two recent events involving the Catholic hierarchy. In a nutshell, the...

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Is Pope Francis About To Sever The Catholic Church’s Alliance With Anti-Gay...

For the next two weeks, an extraordinary gathering of Catholic Church leaders will meet in Rome to discuss the future of marriage and family. In many ways, it’s the typical collection of older, mostly...

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Pope Francis Gets A Lecture From A Devout Married Couple About Welcoming Gays...

The Vatican’s synod on family is underway, and it’s not exactly going as planned. In a surprise that clearly discomforted a number of bishops, an Australian couple hand-chosen to talk to the bishops...

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Major Shift At The Vatican: Bishops Think We May Be Human After All

Is there such a thing as a kinder, gentler homophobia? It seems we’re about to find out. After decades of saying that gayness was “a disordered sexual inclination which is essentially self-indulgent,”...

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Catholic Church Preys on Exhibitionist Priests Who Serve Cocktails And Post...

We’ve all heard tales of Catholic priests whose alleged misconduct has led to their reassignment from one church to another, but where exactly do they go? A recent move by Pope Francis to investigate a...

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U.S. Bishops Declare Open War On The Pope As Too Soft On Homophobia

None of us needs to be reminded of just how homophobic the U.S. Catholic bishops are. But the bishops clearly feel a refresher is in order for Pope Francis. In what is close to becoming an open revolt,...

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Pope Francis Meets With Trans Man; It Must Be Time To Blow Hot Air Up His Robe.

Stop the presses. Pope Francis is reported to have met with a transgender man at the Vatican. A Papal first! For reasons we can’t seem to grasp, religious institutions like the Catholic church are...

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France’s Vatican Ambassador Is Too Gay For Pope Francis

Pope Francis may be pro-gay when stacked up against his predecessors, but that’s not exactly a triumph. It’s been widely reported in French media that he’s now essentially rejected the nomination of...

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Five Things To Watch For During Pope Francis’s U.S. Visit

Pope Francis arrives in the U.S. today. It’s his first visit to the U.S., not just as pope, but ever. In a short time, Francis has manage to change the image of the Church while leaving its doctrines...

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No More Benefit Of The Doubt For Pope Francis — Ever

So much for The Advocate’s Man of the Year.  By choosing to meet with Kim Davis, the reigning pin-up queen of homophobia, Pope Francis has sent the clearest possible signal about where he stands when...

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Vatican Finally Addresses Pope’s Meeting With Kim Davis, Predictably Shrouds...

The dust has settled on Popeapalooza ’15, and in the wake of Papa’s American Popeathon, some big questions linger about the secret, not secret, public/private meeting between Pope Francis and...

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See Kim Davis Waiting To Meet The Pope And The Car The Vatican Sent To Pick...

In response to an official statement released by the Vatican this morning claiming that Pope Francis didn’t specially request a meeting with Kim Davis, the Liberty Counsel has published several images...

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The Group Giving Kim Davis Legal Counsel Is Even Worse Than You Imagined

Kim Davis owes her notoriety to her legal enablers, Liberty Counsel, a right-wing group dedicated to the belief that having your client thrown in jail is the pinnacle of success.  The Rowan County, KY...

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Vatican Fires Gay Priest Who Came Out Ahead Of Major Church Conference On Family

The Vatican on Saturday fired a mid-level official in its doctrine office who came out as gay on the eve of a major meeting (synod) of bishops from around the world to discuss family issues including...

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Vatican Priest Fired For Being Gay Calls Coming Out “An Act Of Desperation”

Monsignore Krzysztof Charamsa, the Polish priest who was recently fired from his job on the heels of coming out, claims that his decision to publicly admit his sexuality was “an act of desperation,”...

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Why Is The Vatican Okay With Unmarried Straight Couples And Not Married Gay...

Is the pope Catholic? Apparently, a lot of bishops don’t think so. The just-finished Vatican synod on the family harkened back to the good ol’ days of the Borgias in terms of intrigue and (at least...

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Priest Fired For Coming Out Says Church Is Making Lives Of Gay Catholics “Hell”

AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino Krzysztof Charamsa, a 44-year-old former senior Vatican priest who was defrocked and fired the day after he came out, has blasted the Catholic Church in an open — and...

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Pope Francis Clarifies Earlier Remarks About Gay People

  Pope Francis is expanding on his 2013 remarks about gays. In an interview with Italian journalist Andrea Tornielli, Pope Francis is asked how he might act as a confessor to a gay person just a few...

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Pope Francis Condemns Same-Sex Couples As Not Part Of God’s Plan

Just in case you were wondering, yes, the “cool” pope is still really grossed out by queers.  “As for proposals to place unions between homosexual persons on the same level as marriage, there are...

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Vatican: Gay Men Shouldn’t Be Priests

A statement released Thursday claims that anyone with "deep-seated homosexual tendencies" is unfit for the priesthood.

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Trump’s miserable Vatican visit blessed the Internet with these perfect memes

Frances did not even pretend to have a good time.

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Police bust priest’s wild, drug-fueled gay orgy, and now the Pope is pissed

Vatican police raided a cardinal's apartment and found themselves in the middle of a wild drug-fueled gay sex orgy.

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‘Top’ church official says gay sex within the Vatican has ‘never been worse’

The Vatican has purportedly become a hotbed for homosexual activity since Pope Francis came along.

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New book reveals the secret “gay subculture of the Vatican”

The author's lawyers hand-delivered a copy to the Vatican's criminal prosecutor. 

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Vatican worries it might have a “credibility issue” when it comes to...

Pope Francis is planning a sex abuse prevention summit, but organizers of the event have apparently become worried people might not take it seriously.

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Shocking new book claims 80% of Vatican priests are really gay

The author interviewed 1,500 Vatican priests, and he's hardly the first person to mention the Church's "gay lobby."

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“I’m often horny”: Gay priests talk sex and one night stands in the seminary

"I'm often horny. So many nights spent in random beds--and still this promise to return to the seminary before curfew."

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Pope Francis receives an insight into LGBTQ lives from US priest

Father James Martin (Photo: Facebook)A US Jesuit priest has revealed more about visits he made this week with Pope Francis and other Vatican officials in Rome, Italy. On Monday it was reported by...

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So Billy Eichner just proposed to Dan Levy…to piss off the Pope

Hot on the heels of the Vatican’s refusal to bless gay unions, comedian Billy Eichner proposed marriage to Dan Levy. His reasoning: it would make the Pope mad. Eichner issued his proposal to Levy via...

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Former priest explains why the Bible does NOT condemn same-sex unions

Pope Francis (Photo: Shutterstock) Roman Catholic attitudes toward gay people have made headlines this week after the Vatican issued a decree on Monday stating priests could not bless same-sex unions....

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Vatican in freakout mode after discovering litany of priests on Grindr

via Shutterstock Officials within the Vatican hierarchy have gone into panic following a new report that revealed a large number of priests in the United States and internationally using the gay dating...

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